Breakfast Club - The Herd

I get up and look at the clock

Stumble out, check my teeth to see if they’ve rot

Brush em now, looking out for the hair of the dog

Hunt em down, on the rocks one coffee and I’m off

I’m coming round 'cause the train I’m on don’t wanna stop

For after effect

And you’re loving the taste of the grog still up in his breath

And the moment of reason is gone cluttered by 'yes'

Now you squint in the sunlight asking «What's next?»

Now I’ve woke with a shock in the night

Asking «Hey why are the shudders blocking the light?»

«Dude it’s midday»

«Oh could you ask Mario to borrow an extra light

To hit the pub or hit sixteen pads like a Tekken fight»

I’m really just riding the day as I see it

And the feeling I’m fighting away was quite decent

And the precedent has been set nights ago

Decadence and the predicate sunlight grows

So it’s another all night to call dawn

And though I got you on my mind I know your roll call

I should take it as a sign and forget it all

But not much is black and white or straight forward

Bar another invite, watch the wall

Another glass asked why, single malt

We play the stages of our time and look for the fall

Warm out, moonlight, I might take a walk

But half of the punters that chase the waste, the escape

The uncharted estate steadily hard to relate

Still the toilet looked better than it ever should’ve

And we drunkenly revel in it

Getting full of all the drink and the devil and shit

Live for the second, the minute, the moment

But I don’t know if I’m coping

Don’t have the stamina, no hammer and tong hedonist

You go ahead me, I’m not taking on Everest

Maybe thinking too much, making assumptions

This, that, seems sprouted I can’t function

I slide into the bar, I’m vaguely aware of the bizarre

Dance macabre, strangers pair off

The ritual starts with a tap on the shoulder

But the company here’s just making loneliness colder

So I’m back out the door, looking for lord knows

The grey blue half light and the long walk home

Here come the sunlight, we’ve ridden the rhythm

It was a fun night, took everything we were given

I had a night that I could never forget

A little this, a little that, and a little regret

I walk through the door of the club

Rub my eyes, gravitate to the bar, it’s a hub

Overpriced, it’s like even the bouncer’s on drugs

Yeh she nice, but as trashy as a cigarette stub with a glamour disguise

All the more tired and worn, the music blaring

See me creeping towards dawn like a ferry

They take photographs with their phones, I’m beyond caring

I just take my smoky clothes home, put em' out for airing

And in the second I’ll reflect on the cheques and balances

A saturday night Bobba Fett and yet still manage to

Tip the break of dawn, we broke the laws of physics

But for now I’ve got a cup of tea and a couch to visit

Out like a lizard drinking, man I’m done with thinking

Calling peeps up and asking them to bring cigs, we done big tings

And any women gets the message grab

Here comes the sunshine so I can’t be had

Swore there was something more to this

I dont know, so I’m getting slowly pissed

The warm glow, I don’t know if you get my gist

But I’m cyclops like there’s plenty of fish but I’m dry docked

And I’m content sitting here on the pier with no boat

Patient, waiting for that ship to come in, it’s so slow

Could be the part of the joke, maybe clutching at smoke

But this frustrated bloke is going to trust, hit and hope

12 hours is a lot of time to get your drink on

Got me thinking about the bottom line and where to kick on

This stamina is killin, softly slow the music

I’m hammered and feeling free got to hold on or lose it

Now I know that the movement towards sleep is imminent

I could keep it in a sit or take fatigue a prisoner

Some help from a friend now at the end of the bag

And get this night to extend, it was the best I’ve ever had

We greet with a kiss on the cheek

It’s awkward, you frown and ask 'where did we meet?'

I laugh and I should’ve just shaken your hand but who gives a damn

We pretend we’re friends, probably won’t see her again

That’s cool, this young disposable income

Got me buying and justifying til the morning come